Tag: Climate and transitions
Global warming: the dramatic and underestimated consequences of mild winters
These are temperature records that are chilling for lovers of harsh winters. The end of 2022, and the first days of 2023, were marked by unprecedented temperature deviations from seasonal…
Electricity and gas: towards a lasting fall in prices?
Can the mild temperatures reverse the trend on the energy bill of Europeans and French people? While hell was promised on the Old Continent at the time of winter, with…
PODCAST. Why France is no longer safe from drinking water shortages (1/2)
In this first episode of our series on the end of the abundance of water, Xavier Yvon explains the tensions over the resource with Alexandra Saviana, journalist at the Société…
Energy, ecological transition… Scientists inform but it’s up to politicians to decide
“Do the French have confidence in science? “: this is an exciting survey recently published by the review of the Institut polytechnique de Paris, this research, education and innovation organization…
Nuclear: a radiant past… and a radiant future!, by Cécile Maisonneuve
“At that time, there were two reactions: the reaction of those who thought it was a crisis […] to which we had to respond with circumstantial measures such as, for…
ZFE: why certain agglomerations will be able to benefit from derogations
This is a subject that tenses many French municipalities: low emission zones (ZFE or ZFEm). In a decree published this Saturday in Official newspaper, it is stipulated that agglomerations of…
Wind turbines: the new Danish model
Impossible to miss it. It stands at the end of a 5 kilometer long open track in the Osterild test center in northern Denmark. Its height is dizzying: 275 meters.…
Climate: the CO2 balance market whets appetites
With the end of the year comes the time to take stock. Alexis Normand, CEO of Greenly, is quite satisfied with that of his start-up: “We sign contracts with a…
The planet or the income of producers: the dilemma of sustainable cocoa
This is a measure announced with great fanfare on December 6th. The European Union has just adopted a regulation prohibiting imported deforestation. We will have to prove, using geolocation tools,…
“Katrina Brain”: when climate disasters affect our mental health
It is a subject which, on this side of the Atlantic, collects little data, but which is likely to require urgent attention in the years to come: the impact of…